Rosemary Apple Blossom Lonewolf (b. Dec. 7, 1953) is an award winning artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. She is the daughter of Joseph Lonewolf and Theresa Lonewolf, niece of Grace Medicine Flower and granddaughter of Camilio Sunflower Tafoya, all renowned artists. She attended St. Mary’s High School in Colorado Springs, CO, Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO and Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. In February 1972 she married Paul Speckled Rock, son of New Mexico Governor Paul Tafoya, in Espanola, NM. Their son, Adam Speckled Rock, was born in November 1972. In 1990 Lonewolf married Louis Baca, an engineer, in Lhasa, Tibet where she traveled to present at the Sino-American Conference on Women’s Issues.
Lonewolf has over thirty years experience in pottery art using the sgraffito etching method. She began her craft in 1972 with the encouragement of her family and under the training of her father, who also uses the sgraffito method. Since she began her career as an artist Lonewolf has been awarded in both Native American and in non-Native art exhibits. She has served on the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian board of directors, received numerous fellowships and commissions, has presented nationally and internationally, and continues to work in her craft and teaching.
Her work has been featured in the National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution, the Heard Museum, and the New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts and Culture amongst others. She was recognized by Arizona Commission on the Arts and was Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University. In Arizona, Lonewolf designed the Isaac Pedestrian Bridge over McDowell Road at 35th Avenue in Phoenix and the pedestrian-bicycle Basket Bridge over Euclid Road at Broadway Boulevard in Tucson.
From the guide to the Rosemary Apple Blossom Lonewolf Papers, 1911-2008, 1980s-2005, (Arizona State University Libraries Labriola Center)
